The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems
Author
Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) h _ segniagbeto @ yahoo. fr
Author
Trape, Jean François
Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie médicale, UR 77, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre de Dakar, BP 1386, Dakar (Senegal) jean-françois. trape @ ird. fr
trape@ird.fr
Author
David, Patrick
Author
Ohler, Annemarie
Author
Dubois, Alain
UMR 7205 OSEB, Reptiles et Amphibiens, Département de Systématique et Évolution, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CP 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) pdavid @ mnhn. fr ohler @ mnhn. fr adubois @ mnhn. fr
pdavid@mnhn.fr
Author
Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) iglitho @ yahoo. fr
iglitho@yahoo.fr
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Zoosystema
2011
2011-09-30
33
3
325
360
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2011n3a4
journal article
10.5252/z2011n3a4
1638-9387
4547017
Naja katiensis
Angel, 1922
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
2 specimens
(
MRAC 29467
,
Nanergou
;
ZMB
22024,
Togo
, no precise locality)
.
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from
256 to 780 mm
; 24-25 MSR, smooth and oblique; 169-172 Ven, smooth; 57-58 Sc, paired; anal single; 6-7 supralabials; 9 infralabials; 2 preoculars; 2-3 postoculars; temporal scale formula 2 + 3 + 5.
DISTRIBUTION. —
Naja katiensis
inhabits mostly
Sudan
savannahs in ER I of the country. Previously, it had been mentioned from
Togo
by Hulselmans
et al.
(1970),
Roman (1984)
,
Spawls & Branch (1995)
,
Rasmussen (1995b)
and
David & Ineich (1999)
.